According to the police report, the incident happened on Saturday afternoon in the Forestdale community. The 911 call came in just after 12 p.m. An initial report from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said officers at the scene found a 29-year-old woman dead. There was no forced entry, but a man was seen fleeing the home just before 911 was called.
But as it turned out later, the dead man's twelve-year-old son had invented the alleged intruder because he had accidentally fired the gun himself. The bullet hit the mother, killing her. "The child originally made up a story that investigators didn't believe was possible," a police spokesman later said. "The evidence at the scene suggests the shooting was unintentional." The family has been cooperative throughout the process and the case will now go to family court.
Such accidents occur again and again in the USA due to the loose gun laws. In May, a two-year-old boy shot his father with an unsecured gun in the family home in the US state of Florida. The accident happened before the eyes of his five-year-old brother, who subsequently became the investigators' most important witness. The mother was arrested and has to answer for, among other things, negligent homicide, illegal possession of a weapon and violating the terms of probation.
In March, a three-year-old boy accidentally shot his mother in a supermarket parking lot in Illinois. Apparently the gun was in the back seat where the boy was in his car seat and got his hands on it. The bullet hit the 22-year-old in the neck while her father was sitting in the passenger seat.
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Sources: Police Bulletin I, Police Bulletin II, NBC News
